But then, I  guess I’m just a Pollyanna. In the process, it seemed, people had discarded respect and love for the creek. stream Beyond the Hannell Street Bridge, the creek curves to the south. JUST beyond Newcastle’s pristine beaches and humming harbour, the shoreline of Throsby Creek has become a disgraceful dump site that authorities are scrambling to disown. The fact you can turn something like this from a dirty drain into an environmental and recreational asset is a fair achievement, I think.”. “It’s great we can revive this creek. “It’s a more than viable alternative to getting something on Newcastle harbour itself,” he says. 6 0 obj When land was cleared for farms and houses in those suburbs, silt sluiced down the watercourses into Throsby Creek.

The water flows on, like time itself. It is impossible not to smile at the uselessness of a bauble. There are lives out there, lives I don’t even pretend to understand. Every time I think “That’s it! THE stretch between Graham Bridge linking Maryville and Tighes Hill and the Hannell Street road bridge about 700 metres downstream holds stronger reminders of the creek’s industrial past.  Warehouses and light industrial sheds squat above cracking pieces of the old concrete banks and drainage pipes dribbling into the creek. A play about the creek was produced, a beer called Murk Draught was brewed (“it was actually pretty good”, reckons Sutton), and the regatta was revived.

Not ‘Eagles’? Roy has three crab traps out. “That was a pretty amazing moment,” Sutton asserts, “to realise that life was getting up the creek.” More than course through the life of Newcastle, Throsby Creek helped a tiny convict settlement grow into an industrial city.

The last time I saw this little guy was in August 2012, by the railway bridge. Yet the creek remained a playground, with people fishing and swimming in its waters, and a sailing regatta was held on it. I’ve had the great good fortune to be contacted by Kevin McDonald. “That was a pretty amazing moment,” Sutton asserts, “to realise that life was getting up the creek.”. The "Throsby Creek Catchment Agencies Plan, 2019-2024" is designed to improve the health and attractiveness of the creek and its catchment, which reaches deep into the Newcastle suburbs, covering about 3000 hectares. “It was the first strategy to bring all the stakeholders together, and it was about looking at it not just from the stormwater aspect, but the ecosystem, the community, all those issues as well,” Sutton recalls. People’s fear of sharks in the creek are fed by history. The surface is fretted and ruffled by fish dashing out of the way. “Once you’re down here, you think, ‘Where else would you want to be?’.”, Surf skier Steve Mietzel paddling on Throsby Creek, with Newcastle Rowing Club's headquarters in the background on the Carrington shore.

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